Hello everyone, World Club Cup and World Club Shield are back. Congratulations to last season’s winners – AC Milan (WCC) and Sao Paulo (WCS). A very big thanks to Mr. Gav Harmer for organizing these tournaments successfully for 4 seasons. Take a bow, mate!! I’m very much honored and pleased to be in-charge of these tournaments this season. Myself along with the fellow admins will try our best to make this tournaments fair, transparent and successful.
As we have 100 teams in our game-world, we will have 4 single legged qualifying rounds followed by 2 legged R32, R16, Qtrs., Semis and 1 leg Final. Please look at following table for clear understanding. We have ranked all 100 teams based on their team strength which are :
| Hellas Verona | Stoke City | Celtic | Olympiacos | Dynamo Moskva |
| FC Porto | Bayer Leverkusen | Swansea City | AZ Alkmaar | Olympique Marseille |
| Borussia Dortmund | Hertha BSC | 1. FC Köln | VfB Stuttgart | Feyenoord |
| Chelsea | Hamburger SV | AC Milan | Club Brugge KV | AS Saint-Etienne |
| Juventus | RSC Anderlecht | Sunderland | Girondins Bordeaux | SSC Napoli |
| Manchester City | Everton | Galatasaray SK | CSKA Moskva | Chievo Verona |
| Bayern München | Flamengo | FC Augsburg | SS Lazio | Lokomotiv Moskva |
| Barcelona | Valencia CF | Lille OSC | Borussia Mönchengladbach | ACF Fiorentina |
| Atlético Madrid | Paris Saint-Germain | Independiente | Sampdoria | Atalanta BC |
| SL Benfica | Manchester United | River Plate | VfL Wolfsburg | Boca Juniors |
| Arsenal | Dinamo Zagreb | Crystal Palace | Rubin Kazan | FC Basel |
| SC Internacional | Standard Liège | Southampton | Ajax | TSG 1899 Hoffenheim |
| Levante UD | Fenerbahçe SK | Málaga CF | Spartak Moskva | Newcastle United |
| Leicester City | Liverpool | Tottenham Hotspur | US Sassuolo | PSV |
| São Paulo F | West Bromwich Albion | Cruzeiro | AS Roma | Shakhtar Donetsk |
| Internazionale | RCD Espanyol | AS Monaco | SEVILLA | Villarreal CF |
| Real Madrid | Udinese Calcio | Torino | Dynamo Kyiv | Olympique Lyonnais |
| Genoa CFC | West Ham United | Werder Bremen | Besiktas JK | FK Partizan |
| Sporting CP | Aston Villa | Santos FC | Zenit Saint Petersburg | Athletic Club |
| FC Schalke 04 | Celta Vigo | Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk | Montpellier HSC | FC Twente |
From these, we will have 20 teams play QFR1, 24 teams in QFR2, 28 teams in QFR3. Final Qualifying round (QFR4) will have 64 teams. Winners of QFR4 will qualify for World Club Cup while Losers of QFR4 will qualify for World Club Shield. From there on, we will have 2 leg rounds till final. (*QFR=Qualifiers)
RULES:
- Any team failing to organize their home fixture / failing to accept the friendly requests will be disqualified automatically and the opponent will qualify for next round.
- In case of draw in Qualifiers and Final (1 legged) and R32, R16, Qtrs, Semis (2 legged), Top 100’s traditional method of deciding the winner will come into place which is available here : https://smtop100.blog/2023/09/20/fictional-extra-time-fet-and-away-goals/
We request everyone to extend their kind support to make these tournaments successful as always. Thanks and all the best to all the managers.
For any queries or discrepancy, please reach out to me – Tharanidharan (Stuttgart) or David Marsden (Hamburg).
Top 100 
Leave a comment